With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants - ground vegetation initially, then trees and finally flowering plants - the Earth's surface ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists,” says McMaster University biochemistry professor Gerry Wright. Fungi produce ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

The four multicellular Zygnema algae belong to the class Zygnematophyceae, the closest living relatives of land plants; it is a class of freshwater and semi-terrestrial algae with more than 4,000 ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost ... it turned out to be “the world's oldest fossilized large land plant.” An academic paper on the rediscovery was published ...

On land, many plants, such as legumes, form an intimate symbiotic relationship with nitrogen ... “Nitrogen acquisition is a fundamentally important part of the functioning of these communities.” W.

The first land plants (Embryophyta ... paper states that the Zygnematophyceae possess adaptations to withstand terrestrial stressors, such as desiccation, ultraviolet light, freezing, and other ...